This is an ad or collage I recently did for First Aide Medicine (my illustrated novel due out in March 2012).
I plan on doing a series of projects that extend the spirit of the book outside its pages. It is still alive somewhere inside me. Its slippery spirit will continue to speak. I am but a medium.
Ah, just got back from the local market here in Ankara Turkey. Those sausage looking things are not meat; they are dried grape juice wrapped in nuts. They are quite good! I just got some. Well, I’d better get back to work and start munching. Doctor’s orders!
What a unique film! The best part, of course, was hearing Darby snarl his way through “Lion’s Share.” The ending was weird too. Was the implication that the real killer hadn’t been found…that it was Al Pacino…or the evil boyfriend of Al’s friendly neighbour? The rest of the soundtrack was also excellent. A lot of Thin Lizzy inspired stuff…gritty backstreet wounded anthems, crying into your drink with a bloody lip but blue-eyed sensitivity too.
I keep listening to this Julian Casablancas song over and over at the bus stop. It has a lot of great tempo and mood changes and of course Julian’s voice is absolutely stellar. Don’t watch the video though…it literalizes the lyrics too much; the sections where he’s flirting with that girl in the bar in that hipster pirate outfit are pretty groovy. The stuff with the Thomas Jefferson look alike just doesn’t do it for me.
Still the songs got such a simple synth hook and then climbs with a great riff and a pleading tone of voice coupled with some pretty out-there-drifting-in-the-cosmos type of lyrics.
Can we touch this ice in a stand off, as the mind grows weak?
Take a wander through the poisonous forest until the pin cushions grow bat wings.
In this guiding light ... there is a twig dangling and the haunted flours are hungry
As we continue to work on the manuscript of First Aide Medicine, I have been blogging frequently at PoemCulture. Check it out if you have some time to kill.
Or check out the excerpt of First Aide Medicine at the online edition of Seahorse Rodeo Folk Revival:
Nicholaus Patnaude’s First Aide Medicine excerpt published at Seahorse Rodeo Folk Review
http://seahorserodeoreview.com/CurrentIssue.html
Nicholaus Patnaude’s illustrated novel, First Aide Medicine, will be published by Emergency Press (http://emergencypress.org/) in late 2011 or early 2012.
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